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http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)61530-6/fulltext
The Lancet
Metaphors and medically unexplained symptoms
Eben S Schwartz
Argh, waffle about deluded people with trivial psychomatic symptoms looking endlessly and in vain for significant biological causes.
There is a valid point that normal human states are sometimes being pathologised (sadness equals depression; valid fearfulness and uncertainty equals anxiety disorder.
Looking on the bright side, there is an air of defensiveness
The Lancet
Metaphors and medically unexplained symptoms
Eben S Schwartz
Argh, waffle about deluded people with trivial psychomatic symptoms looking endlessly and in vain for significant biological causes.
There is a valid point that normal human states are sometimes being pathologised (sadness equals depression; valid fearfulness and uncertainty equals anxiety disorder.
Looking on the bright side, there is an air of defensiveness
But fair enough: history suggests that some conditions we think are psychological today will be medically explained in the future. Still, I continue to believe that most patients with persisting medically unexplained symptoms have just fallen down the rabbit hole of the medical complex. Many are on a crusade for an illness that is too literal and almost holy in its promise of deliverance, yet will never be associated with an abnormality that robbed them of their sense of normalcy.
An explanation can bring more relief than any treatment because the wish for a reason is more powerful than the desire for a cure.
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